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In reply to the discussion: Before you throw out the next Nazi, Hitler, Goebbels slur... [View all]Butterflylady
(3,537 posts)11. I get, I think, what she's saying,
But I also know how "history has a way of repeating itself."
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Welcome to DU! As far as your post, nah. Comparisons can and should be made. (Nt)
FreepFryer
Feb 2021
#1
Thanks so much for joining so you could let us know the error of our ways. Without you we would
Squinch
Feb 2021
#7
the similarities are the rhetoric and violent behavior and attempt to take over the government
msongs
Feb 2021
#9
Repubs have set up concentration camps, and thrown thousands of children in them.
lagomorph777
Feb 2021
#20
Republicans are fascist. They have no regard for human life and only seek to enrich themselves.
onecaliberal
Feb 2021
#12
Nope. We have to call these people what they are before they have the opportunity
Aristus
Feb 2021
#14
And ignore that odd mole on your back that keeps growing. Don't compare it to cancer.
Midnight Writer
Feb 2021
#15
"Nazis" are a very fringe element in America, but regarding the threat of fascism...
AntiFascist
Feb 2021
#16
Sort of, but its hard to think of the Weimar Republic as a "functioning democracy"
Klaralven
Feb 2021
#22
the largest minority party nazis staged political disobedience to keep govt from functioning so
msongs
Feb 2021
#23
j'ever notice how people post and then a ton of folks comment/rebut and not one peep from OP
CurtEastPoint
Feb 2021
#31
They clearly and repeatedly signal their intentions, so I say: believe them
struggle4progress
Feb 2021
#32
I tend to roll with the other replies who think it's fine, as many of the trumpian hordes are actual
Celerity
Feb 2021
#47
Actually I would say Sean Hannity was more the Goebbles of the Trump administration.
Initech
Feb 2021
#41
Sometimes a metaphor is a metaphor. Also, if a current wingnut's orientation is extended to its
UTUSN
Feb 2021
#48
Hitler and Goebbels and Himmler, etc. didn't start out as the Hitler, Goebbels and Himmler we know
StarfishSaver
Feb 2021
#65
No one is comparing Trump to early Hitler simply because he promised to shake things up
StarfishSaver
Feb 2021
#77
this is a political message board with obvious bias and we are not here to be lectured and talked
demtenjeep
Feb 2021
#72
I'm skeptical of how she folds the objection to "Nazis" into the objection to "The Holocaust"
fishwax
Feb 2021
#74
I'm watching a program by Malcolm Nance produced in 2020 called "Unfit" on a channel called...
Hekate
Feb 2021
#83
See, here's a thing about DU members you may not know: many of us have family connections to...
Hekate
Feb 2021
#86
Saying two things are comparable is not saying they are exactly the same.
Captain Stern
Feb 2021
#97
Before you further accuse us of misusing history, perhaps you should see this propaganda film...
Hekate
Feb 2021
#117
You really want to play devil's advocate, don't you? I'm not that interested, as we just had a devil
Hekate
Feb 2021
#126
Thanks. I'm saving the article & its reference to the book this time around. nt
Hekate
Feb 2021
#122